Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-13

Holly Springs, of which, lam glad t.
say, is beginning to feel the breath o
the boom of prosperity, which seems t.
be spreading like a fragrant zephyr all
over the South. The cause of my visit
ing this fourishing little town, was thai
have sister. who has been attending
that grand institution, Rust University
and ! was there during commencement.
week to witness the exercises and to act
company my sister home.
| The fact being that our best teachers
are waking up to the fact that as the
head is dependant on the hand for the
bread it certainly is not wise to give all
our time and attention to one at the ex-
pense oflhe other, the hand needs to
be skillful as truly as the head needs to
be wise. Hereafter we shall expect that
our boys and girls learn how to DO
something as well as to know something.
Many of them may not become very
skillful workmen in the short time OF
one or two hours a day during one or
two school years, but they will learn
something about how to use their hands
something about tools and how to use
them and plan and make many of the
necessary things of life. They form the
important habit of using practically what
they learn in the books, some will get a
start here who will become in the future
successful carpenters, architects and
engineers.
THE WORK SHOP.
This is very busy place during school
hours. During the last school year diff
ferent classes followed each other
through all the trials of learning to con-
troll awkward hands and to use tools in
making various articles.
The Women's Home Missionary So
clety own about ten acres of ground adj
Joining the college campus on which
they have erected fine two story resi-
dence known as the Elizabeth T.. Rust
Girls Home. In it there is room for
about twenty girls, besides a parlor,
dining room, kitchen and matron's room.
In this model home, constantly under
christian influence, the girls do the
work and are trained in all that per-
tains to true womanhood, and are dilli-
gently guarde. against the hurtful in
tinence of evil associations.
We need intelligence, for it is a con-
ceeded fact that the more intelligence
an individual possesses the better quail
fed he is to discharge the duties of citi-
zenship, and take up the just cause for
his personal rights. In conclusion, we
agree with your Greenville, Tenn, cor
respondent about the "great evil:''
Yes, we believe the worst enemy among
the colored people is the saloons, and
are swift witness that every attempt to
deprive us of our legal rights, even dur
ing the time of klu kluxing originated
in the saloons.
Oh, yes, whisky has caused more
widows, orphans and desolate homes
and nearly starves more women and
children than any other evil. Often
times the mother, or, perhaps several
children, would wash around in the
community for bread and clothing for
herself and little children, sometimes
perhaps fortunately, get hold Of little
money with which to purchase herself
and little children some thing from the
stores, when the cunning father, per-
haps having been gone fora little time,
would return and say to the wife, 81
am going to town to-day, wife, and if
you want pair of shoes ora dress Just
let me have the money and I'll get back
by 9 O'Clock a. M, and will bring them
to YOU" The Wife's chicken hearted
feelings are ready to permit her money
being carried for the purpose of bring
ing the desired things. The conse-
quence is he returns about 9 p. M, and
knocks the front door down, staggers in
cursing his wife and threatening to kill
her, she barely escapes getting killed.
These are the evils of whisky. May the
time hasten when law abiding citizens
and those temperance workers will blot
it from our land. JIG,